Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

You're your parents now. It hits you randomly. You're in the middle of packing your kids up for a drive to the beach.

You're laying on the couch because your back hurts. You're telling your daughter to stop messing with the thermostat.

Holy crap, I've become my parents. There's a funny part of it, of course, like those car insurance commercials where the life coach is hired to help people not talk to strangers in a

hardware store or loudly talking to their cell phone speaker. We laugh at this because it's absurd.

We are absurd. We have become the thing we used to mock. But we should also be heartened by it.

We really did it. We became adults. We have a house. We pay our bills. No one checks in to make sure we go to work

each day. And yet each day we do. We are the responsible ones now. We are running a family,

doing a pretty good job too. Remember, your parents were just two people who met and then had

kids. They had no idea what they were doing, but they learned. They figured it out. They did a

half decent job with you or you wouldn't be alive in hearing this.

And now you're in the same spot.

You're the same age today as your parents were at moments you remember in your own childhood.

It's weird, right?

But it's cool.

If you keep doing a half-decent job, if you keep working and learning,

someday your kids will be thinking the same thing, which is even cooler.

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